Purple Finch on Pine Cone Dotted Branch, Lovely Antique Watercolor blue paper but is in very good

but is in very good condition

beak open (and tongue exposed) as it stalks its prey

possibly replaced at elbows but I am not sure

but I love looking at it anyway and surely with some effort  someone better than me could puzzle it out

and nice with a fair bit of air around it

Purple Finch on Pine Cone Dotted Branch, Lovely Antique Watercolor blue paper but is in very goodThere's always room for another bird in the flock, I'd say this a lovely late 19th c. watercolor rendering of a purple finch, done after Audubon I believe. With a wonderful richness of color and variety of patterns forming the finch's feathers, and sweetly pinecone dotted branch. 6 1 2 x 6 3 4 and in good condition, watercolor on heavyweight paper, with faint ink writing along bottom, looks like the name and address of the maker, but hard to fully